Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849 eBook

To this “Query” I may as well add a “Note,”
which may be interesting to some of your readers.

In Sir Roger’s MS. Journal of his persecutions
by the Parliament, he states:

“It is sayd King Charles
subscribed the byll for taking away the
votes of Bishops, in y’t
very house where Christian religion was
first preached,—­viz.
St. Augustines by Canterbury.”

LAMBERT B. LARKING.

Ryarsh Vicarage, Nov. 17.

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MINOR QUERIES.

Honnore Pelle.

Who was “Honnore Pell, 1684”? My
reason for asking this is, I have a marble bust of
Charles II. of colossal size, most splendidly sculptured,
with the long curling hair and full court dress of
the period, and the execution and workmanship of which
would do honour to any sculptor of the past or present
time. On the stump of the arm are the name and
date which I have given above, and I have in vain
looked into biographical works.

W.L.

Bust of Sir Walter Raleigh.

Is there an authentic bust of Sir Walter Raleigh in
existence? and if so, where is it to be found?

J.B.

Motto of University of Cambridge.

From what author, “chapter and verse,”
comes the motto of the University of Cambridge, HINC
LUCEM ET POCULA SAGRA? It is used as a quotation
in Leighton on St. Peter’s Epistle, but in the
last edition the learned editor does not give a reference.

J.J.S.

Family of Giles of Worcestershire.

Can you tell me any thing of a family named “Giles,”
whose crest was a horse’s head? They were
connected with Worcestershire.

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Passage from an Old Play.

Can any of your many readers oblige me by informing
me where the following very striking passage can be
found? I have seen the lines quoted as from an
“Old Play;” but a tolerable extensive knowledge
of old plays, and a diligent search, have not hitherto
enabled me to find them:—­

“Call you the city gay, its revels
joyous?
They may be so to you, for you are young,

Belike and happy. She was young in
years,
But often in mid-spring will blighting
winds
Do autumn’s work; and there is grief
at heart
Can do the work of years, can pale the
cheek,
And cloud the brow, and sober down the
spirit.
This gewgaw scene hath fewer charms for
her
Than for the crone, that numbering sixty
winters,
Pronounceth it all folly.—­Marvel
not
’Tis left thus willingly.”

C.A.H.

Athenaeum Club, Nov. 17, 1849.

Dalton’s Doubting’s Downfall.

About thirty years ago the following appeared in Lackington
and Co.’s book catalogue: “Dalton
(Edward) Doubting’s Downfall, 1_s._ 6_d._”
Application was made, when other books were ordered,
three several times; in each case the answer was “sold.”
Since that date inquiries have been instituted from
time to time, in the usual quarters, but always unsuccessfully.
No clue can be given as to the size or date, but from
the quaintness of the title it is presumed to be about
the period of the Commonwealth.